Bug#311323: RFP: gnopstree -- Display running processes as a tree or forest (GTK+)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : gnopstree
Version : 0.76
Upstream Author : Rocky Bernstein <rockyb@users.sourceforge.net
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnopstree
* License : GPL
Description : Display running processes as a tree or forest (GTK+)
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See picture at http://gnopstree.sourceforge.net/screenshot.jpg
The gnopstree is a program to display via GNOME/GTK the Unix processes
as a tree or forest; the roots of the tree are on the left-hand side
and the leaf processes (with no children) are on the right-hand
side. The status of each process (running, sleeping, stopped, etc.)
can be indicated by a color. Different users can appear as different
colors too.
Within each level, processes are grouped so that those with the same
parent process id are grouped together. Within this, processes are
arranged by userid with lower number uid's appearing towards the
top. In general, the order of children is the order in which they were
spawned, with the older processes appearing towards towards the top.
In contrast to pstree and many tree-widget based programs, the overall
tree display uses diagonal lines; some effort is made to effectively
use the full 2-dimensional area of the screen by balancing levels and
centering the children of a node between their parent. A goal of the
program is to give a picture of what's going on. When possible,
processes are kept close to their parents so one needn't scroll around
too much and so that there isn't a lot of redrawing as processes are
created or destroyed.
One can click on a process to get more information (via ps) about that
process, send a signal to the process, or set its priority, assuming
you have the permission to do so. Since programs of this ilk can
consume a bit of CPU on their own, some effort has been made to turn
off the update process when the program is iconified or not visible.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
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